CS Top-Conference PhD Recruitment Roundup — Week of May 25, 2026

CS Top-Conference PhD Recruitment Roundup — Week of May 25, 2026

A lighter week: one new PhD position confirmed (INRIA Paris, Raoul de Charette, physics-aware world models for autonomous driving). Deadline passed May 24 — contact the lab before applying. Reminder table covers three prior positions (INRIA Grenoble, Chalmers, KU Leuven) with deadlines June 12–18. Coverage note flags ~50% tool failure rate this scan.

CS Top-Conference PhD Recruitment Roundup
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This is a lighter week for new postings. The May 18–25 scan confirmed one new PhD position that clears the top-venue publication bar — INRIA Paris, supervised by Raoul de Charette, working on physics-aware visual world models for autonomous driving. The formal deadline on that position passed May 24; it is included here because applications submitted within a few days of a deadline are commonly still reviewed, and the INRIA portal page remained live as of the access date. If you plan to apply, contact the lab directly to confirm whether late submissions are considered.
Several positions from the May 18 roundup carry deadlines in the next three weeks and remain open as of this writing; a reminder table is included below.
Coverage note: This week's scan hit roughly half its normal platform reach. The academicpositions.com, phdscanner.com, and Nature Careers portals were unreachable, and social channels returned no results. A meaningful number of European ML openings may not have surfaced. The next run will attempt to restore full coverage.

New this week — computer vision

PhD in simulatable physics-aware world models — INRIA Paris, France

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Advisor: Raoul de Charette, research scientist and head of the ASTRA-Vision team at INRIA Paris — a joint laboratory between INRIA and automotive supplier Valeo 1.
Research direction: The PhD will develop visual world models that can simulate physically plausible scene dynamics for autonomous driving. The core challenge is learning representations that jointly encode geometry, appearance, and physical properties — going beyond reconstruction toward models that can generate plausible futures under physical constraints. The project explicitly targets bridging coarse synthetic scenes with physics-aware pre-training to achieve scene understanding in real-world conditions 2.
Advisor's recent top-venue record: De Charette published three papers at CVPR 2024: PaSCo (3D panoptic scene completion, nominated for best paper), Material Palette (single-image material extraction), and A Simple Recipe for Language-Guided Domain Generalized Segmentation 3. He served as Area Chair at CVPR 2025 and has additional publications at ECCV 2024 and ICCV 2025 1.
FieldDetails
Position typePhD (3-year fixed-term contract, CDD)
InstitutionINRIA Paris — ASTRA-Vision team (INRIA + Valeo joint lab)
LocationParis, France (central Paris INRIA offices)
Stipend~€2,300/month gross, standard French doctoral contract
BenefitsSubsidized meals, partial transit reimbursement, 7 weeks annual leave + 10 RTT days
RequirementsMaster's degree (Bac+5) in CS or engineering; solid background in computer vision and deep learning
Start dateOctober 1, 2026 (expected)
Application deadlineMay 24, 2026 (passed) — contact lab to confirm late-submission policy
Application linkApply via INRIA Jobs portal
Job reference2026-09994
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Lab context: ASTRA-Vision sits at the intersection of academic research and industrial deployment — Valeo's involvement means the lab has access to real autonomous driving data and deployment pipelines, which is relatively uncommon for a university-adjacent position. Candidates interested in the bridge between perception research and production systems may find that context useful for evaluating fit.

Positions from May 18 still open

Three of the five positions published in the May 18 roundup have firm deadlines within the next three weeks. They are listed here as reminders; full details appeared in the prior issue.
DeadlineAdvisorInstitutionDirection
June 12, 2026Thomas HueberINRIA Grenoble, FranceMultimodal speech language models
June 13, 2026(supervisor not publicly named)Chalmers University, SwedenEarth observation AI for poverty estimation
June 18, 2026Jesse Davis & Hendrik BlockeelKU Leuven, BelgiumCausal ML for industrial root cause analysis
The University of Basel (Bogunovic / Lucchi, LLM reasoning) and ETH Zurich (Macina, NLP for responsible AI) positions remain open on a rolling basis with no stated deadline.

Notes for applicants

  • The INRIA Paris deadline has passed. Reach out to the ASTRA-Vision lab before submitting to confirm whether applications are still being reviewed.
  • The June 12 INRIA Grenoble and June 13 Chalmers deadlines are nine days away. These require immediate attention if you plan to apply.
  • No new openings surfaced in reinforcement learning, ML theory, robotics, or NLP this week. That reflects tool coverage gaps as much as actual posting patterns.
  • US positions remain absent from this channel's sourcing. Most US CS PhD programs use centralized admissions, and individual advisor postings are rarely published on lab websites or social channels during this period of the year.

Fuentes de referencia

  1. 1ASTRA-Vision Lab — Computer Vision Group, INRIA
  2. 2Computer Vision: PhD thesis on Simulatable Physics-aware World Models — INRIA Jobs
  3. 3DBLP: Raoul de Charette publication search
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